How do I associate my keyboard's media keys with VLC media player?
Problem
I've got an ASUS K50AF series notebook with Windows 7 Home Premium x64. I'm using VLC media player, and I want to use media keys (play, pause, rewind, forward, stop) with it. Currently, they're associated with Windows Media Center. I've tried MK2MP. Unfortunately, it didn't fix my problem, and crashed after restarting VLC media player. Run time error 31 at line 559 Now, I can't even start MK2MP. Any ideas? I've disabled Media Center and Media Player. HIP now recognizes media keys, but the keys still don't do anything. It seems that when I try capturing that key, all programs (including HIP, Key Mapper and AutoHotkey) thinks I pressed the H key.
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Fix for: How do I associate my keyboard's media keys with VLC media player?
You need to bind your keys in VLC media player. Other answers were right on this, but they were missing a couple of details which I am pointing out here. Start VLC media player Click menu Tools → Preferences Click the Hotkeys section near the bottom left. Find the action you want to bind and double click in the "Global" column. If you double click anywhere else, you will be binding the wrong keyboard shortcut. Press your key. VLC media player should recognize it. Restart VLC media player. If yo…
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